Sundae non-party

So, rather than working on my massive paper due tomorrow, I decided to spend my weekend watching Harry Potter and throwing a sundae non-party. The non=party part refers to the fact that only two people showed up. Free brownies, free ice cream and free fudge and only two ya'll showed up, seriously, seriously. Anyways, the sundaes all turned out fantastic!

Heres a very sleepy Ryan enjoying his sundae and wearing possibly the greatest union shirt ever, surpassing my old favourite, the classic CAW "Will strike if provoked" shirt with cut off sleeves and an 80's cobra.

Kath, enjoying her sundae much more than she enjoys photos.

Homemade vegan ice cream ! Chocolate Mint, Banana Ripple and Cookies n 'creme! Also homemade chocolate fudge and caramel topping. There was also homemade coconut whipped cream, but it wasn't thick enough until we got to seconds !

The making of the caramel topping. It was a bit sticky, as in it stuck your jaw together, but once you got over that, it was so so good.

Here's some photos of some other stuff I made this weekend:

Beanball Sub - Veganomicon meat balls, roasted red peppers marinara sauce, FYH vegan mozza, day old bread bought on sale from the A&P

Pad Thai - totally inauthentic, totally delicious, totally addicted.

I also got these done a few weekends ago, and they've just healed enough to post:

They're not crooked, I am. Thank you scholiosis for making me the most difficult person to tattoo or pierce !

A few days ago I posted about the CUPE 3903 strike at York. If anyone is interested (or if anyone even reads this) they're holding a rally this Wednesday outside the Ministry for Training and Education, contact me via facebook or msn if you want more info. If your from around here I can prolly hook you up with a ride!

Also, has anyone been following the Conservative governments recent economic statement? Basically, contrary to what ever other Western government around the world has been doing the Harper government is looking to cutback on social services and privatize almost $2billion dollars worth of assets and Crown corporations. Cutbacks to deal with a recession, really has this ever worked? No, most definitely not. Furthermore, the Harper government is also proposing to remove the right to strike of all public sector employees and to freeze their collective agreements until 2011. Trudeau tried this in the 1970's and it only served to further the recession and actually created stagflation! How is eliminating the right to strike for public sector workers a way to deal with recession? Its not! Harper is attempting to silence to labour movement at a time when capitalism is in crisis and the labour movement is finally beginning to show signs a radicalization (factory occupations in southern ontario anyone?) The Harper government is also attempting to eliminate the 1.95 subsidy each parties receives for each vote it receives in a general election due to third party funding restrictions. Seeing as how the Conservative party is the only party to really financially recover from the 2006 funding changes, this proposition would devastate the opposition parties. The amount saved from the elimination of party subsidies is a "drop in the bucket" compared to the billions in corporate bailouts and tax cuts given to the capitalist class under the Harper government.

This proposal is being put forward as a confidence motion. Essentially, if the parties vote down this motion, the house will fall and we will be hurled back into yet another general election after only two weeks in session. Recently it has been proposed that the NDP and Liberals form a "Progressive Coalition" to govern instead of the reigning Conservatives. But, really how "progressive" and how different would an NDP-Liberal Coalition really be. We saw in the 1990's how Liberal governments respond to recessions with massive cutbacks to social and economic transfers and a general downloading of services onto the cash-strapped provincial governments. In the 1970's, the Trudeau government was all too willing to impose binding wage restrictions on all public sector workers, essentially throwing their collective agreements out the window. And what about the NDP's electoral commitment to withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan, recalling Conservative tax cuts and corporate bailouts and reinvesting this money into much needed social services? Might as throw that out the window as well. The Liberals are no different than the Conservatives and represent big business and the rest of the capitalist class. While the Conservative governments needs and deserves to be thrown out of office the NDP cannot act as "the social conscious" to the Liberals. If the NDP are to attract the working class and youth, it must adopt and carry through socialist policies. NO more bailouts to corporations, NO more tax cuts for the rich and NO to an NDP-Liberal coalition government. YES to a socialist NDP and YES to a socialist Canada !